Improvement in blacking-brushes



UNITED STATES-PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN V. B. WHITE, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLACKlNG-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 217,564, dated July15, 1879; application filed April ".39. 1879.

7 proved brush with the spreading-brush or dauber fixed in its place;Fig. 2, a side elevation, showing the dauber partially removed Fig. 3,an end elevation; Figs. Aand 5, details of construction of the dauber;and Fig. 6, a detached section, showing the manner of attaching theblacking-box to the polishing brush.

My invention consists in the combination of a polishing-brush having araised handle provided with projecting beads at each side, and a dauberprovided with a slotted tubular handle adapted to slide on the raisedhandle, as herein set forth; and it further consists of a daubing-brushconstructed in the manner herein described.

As shown in the drawings, A is the polishing-brush, provided with a'raised handle, B.

On the opposite sides of said handle are projecting beads 11, runninglengthwise of the handle. in g-brush, as illustrated in the drawings.Said handle consists of two malleable-metal parts, 0, which, whensecured together, form a slotted tube adapted to slide upon theprojections b, by which it is retained on the handle B. The parts 0 areprovided with the semicircular clamping'jaws 0 made with a standing rimfalling in at both sides from the line of the flange 0 so as to securethe blocks D in place. Said clamping-jaws are also provided with ears 0to bend over on the blocks 1.), as a means of more securely fasteningsaid blocks. One of the pieces 0 is also furnished with a point, 0, atthe end of the handle, which serves as a scraper for removing mud anddirt from the joint between the uppers and soles of boots and shoes.

The blocks D are made of a conical form to O is the tubular handle ofthe daubfit in the clamping-jaws of the tubular handle, and are providedwith suitable perforations, into which the bristles are drawn for making the spreading-brush E and mud-brush F.

G is a box of blackin g secured to the back of the polishing-brush, andfor the purpose of so securing it the bottom of the box is punctured toengage on the screw g, permanently fixed in the back of the brush. Bythis means the parts are so adapted that the box can be readily removedand a new box substituted when desired.

When preferred, the handle 0 may be made of wood, and in such case thehandle should be divided into two parts on a plane parallel to the faceof thebrush, instead of the perpendicular division shown and describedin the metallic handle, and each part should form an integral part ofthe back of either the dauber or the mud-brush. The two parts, afterhaving the bristles drawn in them for forming the brushes, should besecured together back to back by gluing or other suitable means, and atubular slot formed in the handle similar to the one shown in themetallic handle in the drawings.

Either the dauber or mud-brush may be dispensed with when preferred, andtheir places in the handle 0 filled with a blank block.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the brush A, having araised handle, B, provided with the projections b and the box G, of aslotted tubular handle, 0, adapted to slide on the projections b of thehandle B, as herein specified.

2. The handle 0, consisting of the metallic pieces 0, provided withclamping -jaws 0, adapted to hold either or both of ,the brushes E andF, as and for the purpose herein specified.

3. The raised handle B and slotted tubular handle 0, constructed andcombined as herein described, and attached to the brush A, to form ahandle for said brush, as herein specifled.

. MARTIN V. B. W'HITE.

Witnesses: 7

WILLIAM H. Low, E. F. BENHAM.

